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"If I had to say, 'what is the purpose of [Digi]', you know, 'what is the purpose of me as an anime Youtuber', it's being able to explore myself, explore why I feel the way I do about anime, to help other people to understand their own feelings about anime, and to inspire people enough that they pay me. You know, that they think that I'm providing some kind of service, some kind of [...] I like to think that why people are paying me is that I'm helping them to understand themselves, that I'm helping people to look in the mirror and understand what's there, and give them words that they didn't have, give them context they didn't have into appreciating their own emotions."
Beatrice, "Ranting About The Purpose of Anime Youtubers"

"In today's pop cultural landscape there seems to be this sort of obsession with the ideas of "subversion" and "deconstruction." When a show comes along that does something a little bit different from the Lowest Common Denominator idea of what would be considered normal for its genre, people are quick to praise the innovation that they feel is on display and to herald the crushing of the old tropes. While I can appreciate this excitement over the idea of innovation and challenging storytelling norms, I think that a lot of this overzealous celebration is misguided. And to me it reeks too much of coming from the position of wanting to think that the things you like are somehow smarter, more mature, and more interesting than the stuff that came before, or that is propped up by the mainstream."

"[...] you get this scene in Phantom World where the dude tries to avoid accidentally groping a girl and ends up with his face in her panty instead. And I've seen people have the nerve to call this "subversive". What the fuck? See, I know what it's like when this trope gets subverted 'cause I watched this 21-year-old cartoon called "Gundam Wing"note  where the main character falls on his girlfriend's boobs, and she just stares at him for like half an hour before asking him to get the fuck off of her. The table is turned on the viewer here because anime has taught you that this scene is supposed to be funny, and that the girl is supposed to slap the guy in the face. But instead they treat this scene like it's actually happen to the characters in real life, and it's just awkward and quiet before the girl has a reasonable response. [...] There's nothing subversive (in Phantom World) about this guy trying not to grab this girl's boobs, because his face still ends up in her panty anyway. They didn't change the basic meaning of the scene, they just called attention to the fact that they were doing it."
Beatrice, Anime Is Getting Lazy With Its Meta, giving an example on the difference between Lampshading and Subverting.

"The concept of a “trope” is recognizing a pattern in all the data you’ve collected and attempting to codify it as something singular. But there’s a reason that websites like TV tropes dutifully list every single example of how the trope has been used, subverted, or even referenced in media—because reading through that allows you to appreciate the contextual multifacetedness of the trope as a tool. We need these tools. These are the building blocks of our foundation. It’s important that we be able to communicate as efficiently as possible for the sake of moving society along at the fastest pace; but it’s also imperative that we fundamentally understand what the hell we’re saying to one-another—and so we need to scientifically and methodically dive into every permutation of every concept imaginable and have a robust understanding of it."
Beatrice, To be compelling, on the function of tropes.

"This is what TV Tropes people mean when they invoke the Rule of Cool. The rules of this universe are literally defined by what will look the coolest in animation. I'm willing to bet that there was a production meeting for this show where someone said, "We want there to be lots of big explosions of blood and gore. What can you think of which would create the biggest, most satisfying explosion of blood and gore?" "Well, what about driving a massive fucking train through a horde of zombies? Yeah, that works." "We also want to have people fighting the zombies up close and personal, but there's a limit to what we can do if those people are bound by the laws of physics and logic." "Well, if we introduce a race of super-powered zombie-human hybrids then we can pretty much animate whatever our imaginations can conjure." Now, I'm not saying that Kabaneri couldn't have possibly had a better story or more interesting characters, and still have been exactly as badass as it was...but I do have to wonder how anyone made it three episodes into this show and thought that it had any priorities other than animating cool shit."
Beatrice, "Kabaneri Was Always That Dumb"

Alternative Title(s): Digibro

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